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New employer's code is a timebomb of epic proportions. How to deal with this accordingly? [duplicate]
Using a temp anonymous account because I post regularly on stackoverflow/here under my real name.
So I got a new employer the other week as a software engineer. Friendly team, good employer. No issues ...
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How would you handle inflexible bad coding standards at a new job? [duplicate]
I have only been working at my current position for a little over 3 months and I feel that some of the coding standards that are in place go against my personal best practices. The biggest clash seems ...
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Should I propose a big change as a newcomer?
I have been working in the IT department of a (relatively) small company for 2 months.
Recently the boss of another department (who is a former developer) told me that it would be nice if we started ...
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How can a junior convince a senior developer to use object oriented concepts? [duplicate]
This topic relates to web development / software engineering; however the question can be related to other fields of expertise involving a more junior employee being more technically skilled than a ...
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Convincing manager to change programming languages [duplicate]
I'm a software engineer at a small manufacturing firm writing custom software for the company to use in various areas, from the assembly line to managing documentation. We have a large number of ...
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How can I explain a different approach in software engineering than the one currently used in codebase? [duplicate]
Where I'm working, the developers changed every year, with each developer leaving his own way of doing things, and moving on afterwards, the code-base lacks proper documentation, is not developed with ...
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What can a developer do to instill a practical team Agile mentality? [duplicate]
I have been at my new job as a contractor for about four months. Since I am very sensitive about workflow protocols and procedures, I made it a priority during the interviewing process to ask things ...
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How to inspire change as a new employee in a company that's clearly becoming obsolete? [duplicate]
I was hired recently into an old company from the 80s that sells some niche BASIC software, servers, and support for warehousing and fulfillment.
My position is the lone programmer in the "new" web ...
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Am I overstepping? [duplicate]
I am junior in a large corporation. I have been raising issues with management about problems with our products that may eventually cause some severe problems down the line - nothing life threatening ...
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Difficult relationship with Opinionated Senior Colleagues [duplicate]
Note: This situation originates from a student team, rather than a workplace, but I think it is quite fair to be regarded in similar fashion to a workplace/company environment. We treat our work ...
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How to overcome corporate inertia [duplicate]
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I work on a small company in Brazil, that is not focused on development. I can’t really find a way to describe my position, but I work as a mix of infrastructure, network and database ...
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How to push for a real company culture? [duplicate]
I'm new in my company and I'm also the youngest (23 years old).
The CEO is trying to hire more young graduates as software engineers, and has asked me how to attract them. I know that some friends of ...
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Software development for a beginner, selling to your boss [duplicate]
I work for a large multi-national on one of the largest projects ever undertaken. I am definitely not a software developer and I am sure most would laugh at my code. I have very limited experience ...
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New to a company and need a plan to introduce changes [duplicate]
I started a new role as a lead developer at a new company. They have been using an external agency for all development work and I need to ultimately take over the whole of IT and moving into a CTO ...
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How to tactfully and respectfully make a suggestion to my teammates and supervisor? [duplicate]
I work as a software developer on a small dev team of three people. One person is my co-worker/main developer, the other is my supervisor who is also a dev. I'm pretty new to the technology we are ...
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How to tell bosses that they are not working systemically [duplicate]
I've been interning at a startup as a project manager for the last 2 months.
Whenever I make a mistake and take a wrong step my boss will just randomly drop me message stating that I did not do ...
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how do you create a design system culture in your team [duplicate]
Design systems are gaining a lot of popularity lately, especially with invisions design system manager coming up next month However setting up these tools are only half the battle according to even ...
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How soon should I advocate for making changes after starting in a new job?
I recently started a new job at a new company as a Systems Administrator. The company is a small business with about 120 employees that, in my opinion, is on the cusp of becoming a medium-sized one ...
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How to demonstrate technical leadership skills in a situation where my inputs may not be welcome?
I work at a large software enterprise. Multiple orgs, multiple teams, huge hierarchy of managers and managers of managers.
I am a fairly senior individual contributor with more than a decade of ...
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How to stay motivated when it feels that senior colleagues aren't?
I passed out of my college with a degree in computer science about 2 years back and since then I have worked in a multi-national firm which pays me decently well. I am sincerely interested in ...
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Software development shop doesn't have standard technology choices for web-development
The company I started working at about 6 months ago has no "standard" or "default" technologies for web application development.
The company is fairly new to hiring developers, so ...
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As the new guy, how do I get people to act on all their big talk?
I'm "the new guy" at a small manufacturing company's IT department. We've a small team of 3 application devs + 1 database dev/dba-ish role. I've been here for a few months, so I'm hitting the point ...
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How can I advocate for a change that a very admired colleague opposes?
I'm a senior developer at a new job. One rock star programmer on my team is considered senior. He has worked on the project for years. His code has unhelpful or misleading names. It has methods and ...
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Giving critical information to a senior [duplicate]
I recently joined a project as the most junior member in the entire team.
As usual, our project manager split up the work to be done and assigned the tasks to different team members for follow up. ...
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How to effectively challenge "this is how we always do it"
I have worked in a number of software companies, and all of which have their own idiosyncrasies, which is perfectly understandable. The problem is, that some of these are (objectively) not good ...
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How to approach a manager to give a suggestion for reorganizing meetings?
I have recently started my first job after grad school. The size of my team is around 20. My manager is great. I meet (as quick meetings) most of my teammates at least once in a day to discuss what is ...
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How to work with senior staff who are averse to new ideas? [closed]
My senior developers have around almost a decade of experience. They are open-minded to whatever THEY believe is good. They also lack interest in general problem solving and are not interested in ...
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How to introduce better software development practices/processes in the workplace? [duplicate]
I'm a developer in a small software team that works on fairly large software systems. There is a lot of room for improvement in our software development process. The software lead sees the need for it,...
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How to make recommendations at a facility as an intern
I am an undergraduate student in my second year of study. During my final semester holiday, I have joined the water quality assessment division in my city to aid me in acquiring my undergraduate ...
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My ideas are ignored unless they are repeated by someone else
At two of the companies I've worked for so far, I've run into a strange issue with my boss. I come up with an idea to solve a problem, and it gets ignored, or at most gets barely any reaction. As soon ...
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